A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 71.—Dagger, barrow atSnowshill, Gloiies. 4 Fig. 72.—Spear-head, pro-bably from Ireland, i Fig. 73. — Spear-head, Ireland. ?} on that from Fenny Bentley (fig. 75), found with two bronze pins,not so common in this country as elsewhere. The discoverjf in Heathery Burn Cave, Co. Durham, is mostimportant in many ways. It is by far the most instructive ofany Bronze age deposit in this country not of a sepulchral G 2 84 DESCRIPTION OP CASE D character, and comprises the entire equix:)ment of a fa
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 71.—Dagger, barrow atSnowshill, Gloiies. 4 Fig. 72.—Spear-head, pro-bably from Ireland, i Fig. 73. — Spear-head, Ireland. ?} on that from Fenny Bentley (fig. 75), found with two bronze pins,not so common in this country as elsewhere. The discoverjf in Heathery Burn Cave, Co. Durham, is mostimportant in many ways. It is by far the most instructive ofany Bronze age deposit in this country not of a sepulchral G 2 84 DESCRIPTION OP CASE D character, and comprises the entire equix:)ment of a family who hadlived or taken refuge in the cave, and had there been apparentlyoverwhelmed. The various objects may therefore be regarded ascontemporary, and they unquestionably belong to the time whenthe Bronze age culture had reached its highest point in Britain.
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